Donate ART

I donated this art piece for a fundraiser-Mississippi Murder Mysteries
held at Fairview Inn Saturday June 4, 2011.

The funds raised will be used to help relocate Community Place.

Donate ART

I donated this art piece for the silent auction at the
Mississippi Dancing with the Stars held at the Jackson
Country Club on August 13, 2011.

I love the rich espresso bean chocolate with swirls and texture!

This painting was inspired by a peacock feather...

ArT journaling

A friend recently said to me,

"i can't find enough stuff to do

with my time to keep me from getting

bored." My response, "i can't find enough time

to get everything done I want to do."

The difference in people!

Is she right or wrong!?

Am I right or wrong!?

My answer to both is NO!!!

I truly believe everyone looks for that

balance every hour, day, week, month

and year. Managing our time, managing our life!

speed up, slow down

Just like the time I set aside this school year

to focus on my ART. The first week went good.

I worked on a few things from finishing a painting I started

last year, starting and finishing a new painting, working on

some mail art, and sketching a face for the first time since

junior high. I wanted to write one big blog post showing

you everything at one time, but

that would be a disservice to you and I both! Look

for those to come in the days and weeks ahead...

For now let's start here...

ART JOURNALING

art journaling is a collection of creative techniques

shared to express yourself.

This summer, I wanted to challenge my

kids to make more art. Each summer and

really all year long it plays a big part of our life,

but I wanted to take a different approach to it.

Something I would enjoy too!

I feel everyone is a creative beginning!

Creativity comes in many shapes and sizes. From with-in

a kitchen, a garden, a written page, a walk, a room-decorating,

and even a art studio. Check this video out below...

You just might be more creative than you realize!

I got the idea to do the art journal from a magazine called Art Journaling.

I bought the girls and I a 5.5x8 watercolor journal

from Hobby Lobby(see picture below). The thickness of the pages

caught my eye, not that they were watercolor. We used what paint,

tissue paper, scrap paper, markers, pens etc. we had on hand. I stressed

the fact of working on a budget and working with stuff you

might already have.

my first Art Journal page

The first page theme was "my first art journal"

I encouraged them to

*use 5 to 9 colors

*write summer 2011

*write their name

*plan out their page before jumping in-just be creative!

*to write around the outer edge what summer means to them.

I used tissue paper-the white and pink at the top of page,

green and pink paint, black pen, scrapbook paper cut in circles-bottom of page,

This Art Journal project was a way for

the kids and I to share our

creativity on a new level, trying new things. I enjoyed

watching them work along the way and they did me as well.

Each piece kept together in the journal was a big plus, so that we don't

have tons of canvas laying around, that more than likely would

end up in storage somewhere.

They had so much fun!

Look for page two in my art journal next week!

and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom,

with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills—

to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze,

Exodus 35:31-32 

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works,

which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10



Do you have a hard time managing your time?

Do you art journal?

Would you like more tips on art journaling?

Comments are welcomed, feel free to jump in...

Martina McBride's new song

My mom shared this with me!

It was on Good Morning America...
she watched her tv as I watched mine,
phones pressed tight to our ears!

Diving IN

It's a bitter sweet kinda thing
with my kids going back to school. We've
had the best time this summer and find
it so hard to believe
it's really over!

For me that means, I am diving IN...
deep into my art, something I've wanted
to do for a long, long time. Now that my first book
is finished and I put my camera on the shelf,
I feel so FREE and I am ready to move forward.

I hope you will join me!

Here is a picture of my newly updated ART studio...

This is a spare room of ours, we got an estimate
for closing a section of our attic in for a really cool
art studio, that I designed, but I just can't turn
loose of that kinda money! Most people think the
hubby is tight, but I am just as tight with money. I
find it kinda cozy to just make do with what I already have...
just like in the pictures below the shelves I am using are all things I've had.

One day while out shopping for shelves to help update
the ART studio, I started thinking. Thinking about the pieces
I already had, some were even in the attic, I pictured
the whole thing right there in my mind! So I left the
stores empty handed, except the containers!

Starting from left to right:
*the chair stack on top of the table was my grandmothers
*the table the chair is on is a old end table of ours
*the dresser is from hubby's childhood
*the actually shelf on the right is one I bought a few years ago that I just couldn't really find a home for until I moved it here, I realized I really did like it where it was.

I thought it all turned out really cool!

So moving forward, be on the look out for more artwork...